Choul, WilliamDu

, a gentleman of Lyons, of the
sixteenth century, bailiff of the mountains of Dauphiny,
travelled over Italy to improve himself in the knowledge
of antiquity; and is principally known by a scarce and excellent treatise of the “Religion and Castrametation of the
ancient Romans,” folio, Lyons, 1556, 1569, 4to, and 1580,
4to. This singular work of antiquities is remarkable, especially for its second part, which treats of the manner of
pitching and fortifying the camps used by the Romans, of
their discipline and their military exercises. It has been
translated into Latin, Italian, and Spanish: the Latin,
Amst. 1685, 4to, the Italian, Lyons, 1559, folio; both editions are scarce, but less so than the French original,
though not so well executed. He has the honour of being
one of the earliest French antiquaries, but his countrymen
have preserved no memorials of his personal history. The
last edition of the French Diet. Hist, attributes to him two
other treatises, “Promptuaire des Medailles,” and “Traite
des Bains des Grecs et des Remains,” but we suspect this
last is included in the larger work above mentioned. 2

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